Carplay compatibility?

It would be awesome if you guys can develop an app for Apple Carplay. Nothing fancy, just to open and close the garage door. It really makes sense as more and more cars supports carplay/android auto and to have the garage door controls right at the dash.

I have been asking for this for a couple years now. Latest update to the app added Apple watch so that's a start if you have an Apple Watch. I want HomeKit first though cause then I could just say "Het Siri open my garage door" as I drive up to the house. CarPlay would most definitely be welcomed though

This sounds like a good suggestion. Having said that, what car has Carplay but not buttons on the back mirror (or somewhere else) to open at least 2 if not more garage doors? It seems to me those buttons are more convenient and they leave more room on the LCD for other stuff.

I also agree with Michael and Mark that while this is nice to have, integration with home automation systems should have higher priority. IFTTT PLEASE!!!!

I just bought a Chevy Cruze "Premier" and it has all the tech... reverse sensors, forward collision warning, start car from phone app, lane keep assist, auto high beams, Apple Car Play....... No Home Link to open garage doors.

Adding the ability to open the garage door through Car Play would be the best thing ever!

I have a 2017 Dodge Challenger. It does have Homelink but I have to be on top of the door for it to open and then some times I still can't get it to open. I must have some type of interference. Strange thing is that I have a Jeep with Homelink and it works at the end of the drive. Anyway, MyQ works every time but I have to pull my phone out of the center console to use the app. There is no convient place to put the phone except inside of the console. I think this is by design ;-).

Most cars do have this capability but I actually thought about this when I was renting a car since I didn’t want to program the homelink one to my garage door and have to remove it later. Also my 2 Ford cars allow you to open and close the door even with the car off so there’s a slight security risk. My Mercedes only worked of the car was on.

With Apple locking the lighting port now with iOS 12 which requires the passcode to allow a USB device to see the phone (it’s also able to be disabled) it would be nice if Apple opened its HomeKit up to CarPlay for certain things. But a geofence also works and I have had so very few issues with it I ditched my clicker remote to the console of my car so my wife can use it when she’s drives my car.

My new Honda Civic has CarPlay but no buttons on the mirror. As more non-luxury cars add CarPlay/Android Auto, there will be more cars where adding this makes sense. I can't believe this would take an inordinate amount of resources to build an app to accomplish this and am surprised it hasn't happened yet.

My Chevy Bolt has the same problem. Chevy has removed homelink button support from their cars now. As Jarad rightly pointed out, more auto manufacturers will be headed in this direction. I think adding app suport for CarPlay/Android Audio is a must at this point.

Only problem is Apple has to allow it for CarPlay which is very slowly opening up to devs. This fall we can finally use Waze or Google maps instead of Apple maps. Maybe by iOS 13 we can have HomeKit features like the opening and closing of a garage door baked into CarPlay

Yeah Apple announced 3rd party maps for CarPlay this fall. Of course those map apps need to be updated to support CarPlay but google maps and waze (owned by google) were announced for the iOS 12 update presumably being released early September

This update will install on devices up to 5 years old (try that with a Samsung phone haha) and should double the speed of any device on ios11 right now.

I’m using it and on beta 4 right now it’s a lot more stable than the previous betas.

You don’t have to unplug it for hey siri to work with it. It just needs to be unlocked. So a quick finger print or face scan then the hey Siri open my garage door works just fine. I tend to use my Apple Watch though as I open it about a block away cause sometimes it takes a bit for the door to start opening